Rooftop Mini-Hills of San Francisco
Tom Fox, SWA Group
Rooftop Mini-Hills of San Francisco
Tom Fox, SWA Group

Webcor Builders, San Mateo, Calif., turned over the keys to the $484-million California Academy of Sciences on Oct. 25, providing time for the museum to complete the aquarium, rain forest, planetarium and museum of natural history for a planned fall 2008 opening. The Renzo Piano-designed building includes a green roof, landscaped by SWA Group, San Francisco, with hills shaped by the structure’s domes. An earlier building was earthquake-damaged.